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  2. Radius of curvature (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Radius of curvature sign convention for optical design. Radius of curvature (ROC) has specific meaning and sign convention in optical design.A spherical lens or mirror surface has a center of curvature located either along or decentered from the system local optical axis.

  3. Sign convention - Wikipedia

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    The sign of the weight of a tensor density, such as the weight of the determinant of the covariant metric tensor. The active and passive sign convention of current, voltage and power in electrical engineering. A sign convention used for curved mirrors assigns a positive focal length to concave mirrors and a negative focal length to convex mirrors.

  4. Thin lens - Wikipedia

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    There are other sign conventions such as Cartesian sign convention where the thin lens equation is written as + =. For a thick lens, the same form of lens equation is applicable with the modification that parameters in the equation are with respect to principal planes of the lens. [3]

  5. Geometrical optics - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to curved mirrors, thin lenses follow a simple equation that determines the location of the images given a particular focal length and object distance (): + = where is the distance associated with the image and is considered by convention to be negative if on the same side of the lens as the object and positive if on the opposite side ...

  6. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    When measuring the height of an inverted image using the cartesian sign convention (where the x-axis is the optical axis) the value for h i will be negative, and as a result M will also be negative. However, the traditional sign convention used in photography is "real is positive, virtual is negative". [1]

  7. Lens (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A lens contained between two circular arcs of radius R, and centers at O 1 and O 2. In 2-dimensional geometry, a lens is a convex region bounded by two circular arcs joined to each other at their endpoints. In order for this shape to be convex, both arcs must bow outwards (convex-convex).

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  9. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    For a thin lens in air, the focal length is the distance from the center of the lens to the principal foci (or focal points) of the lens.For a converging lens (for example a convex lens), the focal length is positive and is the distance at which a beam of collimated light will be focused to a single spot.